USN-3866-1: Ghostscript vulnerability

ghostscript vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

Ubuntu 18.10

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

Ghostscript could be made to crash, access files, or run programs if it
opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description

ghostscript - PostScript and PDF interpreter

Details

Tavis Ormandy discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled certain
PostScript files. If a user or automated system were tricked into
processing a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could possibly use
this issue to access arbitrary files, execute arbitrary code, or cause a
denial of service.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: